Word evolution game

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Umlaut

[s̪iˈɕiɛ̯ɠøːɲi]
tzîtíegōni
‘instance of sabotage, civil unrest, riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance’

[Travis B.]

Lengthening of stressed vowels in syllables before syllables with long unstressed vowels with shortening of long unstressed vowels.

[s̪iˈɕiːɛ̯ɠøɲi]
tzîtíegōni
‘instance of sabotage, civil unrest, riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance’

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High vowels in open syllables become syllabic fricatves after sibilants

[sz̩ˈɕiːɛ̯ɠøɲi]
sixiiegœni
‘instance of sabotage, civil unrest, riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance’

[Travis B.]

All unstressed vowels are opened.

[sz̩ˈɕiːɛ̯ɠœɲe]
sixiiegœni
‘instance of sabotage, civil unrest, riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance’

[foxcatdog]

*ɲ becomes a trill

[sz̩ˈɕiːɛ̯ɠœre]
sixiiegœni
‘instance of sabotage, civil unrest, riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance’

[Travis B.]

Sibilant sequences become affricates.

[ˈtɕiːɛ̯ɠœre]
sixiiegœni
‘instance of sabotage, civil unrest, riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance’

[Lērisama]

Implosives lose glottalisation with compensatory creaky voice on the preceding vowel

[ˈtɕḭːɛ̰̯ɡœre]
sixiiegœni

‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance’
Archaic: ‘instance of sabotage, civil unrest’

[Travis B.]

Breaking of overlong diphthongs

[ˈtɕḭjɛ̰ɡœre]
sixiiegœni

‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance’
Archaic: ‘instance of sabotage, civil unrest’

[Lērisama]

Unrounding of front rounded vowels

[ˈtɕḭjɛ̰ɡɛre]
cįyęgeré

‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy’
Archaic: ‘instance of sabotage, civil unrest’

[Travis B.]

Replacement of stress accent with pitch accent where the first syllable in a word that is not creaky voiced gets high tone and all other syllables get low tone, combined with loss of creaky voicing.

[tɕìjɛ̀ɡɛ́rè]
cįyęgeré

‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy’
Archaic: ‘instance of sabotage, civil unrest’

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*r > z / "V_

[tɕìjɛ̀ɡɛ́zè]
cįyęgeré

‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy’
Archaic: ‘instance of sabotage, civil unrest’

[Lērisama]

Even syllable syncope, with front vowels leaving residual palatalization

[tɕìjɡɛ́zʲ]
cįyęgeré

‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy’
Archaic: ‘instance of sabotage, civil unrest’

[Travis B.]

Breaking up consonant clusters with starting with semivowels or liquids with schwa epenthesis.

[tɕìjəɡɛ́zʲ]
cįyęgeré

‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy’
Archaic: ‘instance of sabotage, civil unrest’

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*i > Ø / _jV

[tɕjəɡɛ́zʲ]
cįyęgeré

‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy’
Archaic: ‘instance of sabotage, civil unrest’

[Travis B.]

jə > ēː

[tɕēːɡɛ́zʲ]
cįyęgeré

‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy’
Archaic: ‘instance of sabotage, civil unrest’

[Lērisama]

Palatals to refroflexes

[ʈ͡ʂēːɡɛ́zʲ]
cįyęgeré

‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy’

[Travis B.]

Intervocalic [g] > [ɣ]

[ʈ͡ʂēːɣɛ́zʲ]
cįyęgeré

‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy’

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Vocalic sequence contraction (I hope this isn’t too much of a change—I see it as the way that the sequence front-vowel-gh-front-vowel sequence resolves due to its structure, if that makes sense)

[ʈ͡ʂǎjzʲ]
cįyęgeré

‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’

[Lērisama]

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(I hope this isn’t too much of a change—I see it as the way that the sequence front-vowel-gh-front-vowel sequence resolves due to its structure, if that makes sense)

That seems fine to me. I quite like it

Diphthong raising:

[ʈ͡ʂɛ̌i̯zʲ]
čaizь

‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’

[Travis B.]

Vowel epenthesis after final palatal(ized) consonants.

[ʈ͡ʂɛ̌i̯zʲi]
čaizi

‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’